Category: fiction

Review – The Curse of the Flores Women by Angelica Lopes, Translated by Zoe Perry

  Synopsis Eighteen-year-old Alice Ribeiro is constantly fighting―against the status quo, female oppression in Brazil, and even her own mother. But when a family veil is passed down to her, and she discovers it hides a secret coded tale of domestic violence that happened 100 years before, she is compelled to uncover the hidden history […]

Excerpt – Paths Not Yet Taken by Philip Rennett

  Synopsis Paths Not Yet Taken is a satirical contemporary fiction, encompassing political, military and religious themes alongside human relationships, the importance of pets and the inestimable value of a game of golf. In a Midlands food warehouse, a ministerial visit goes wrong when the prime minister disappears. The consequent nationwide search creates major issues […]

Review – A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston

  Synopsis A professor of literature finds herself caught up in a work of fiction… literally. Eileen Merriweather loves to get lost in a good happily-ever-after. The fictional kind, anyway. Because at least imaginary men don’t leave you at the altar. She feels safe in a book. At home. Which might be why she’s so […]

Review & Excerpt – Sunset Ledge by Darlene Deluca

  Synopsis Can a seasoned traveler from the city thaw the numb heart of a reclusive Texas widower? Jack Armstrong lives like a recluse on his Texas ranch. In the difficult years after his wife’s death, he goes through the motions of life and wants to be left alone. Caroline Tate, a widowed ecology professor, […]

Review & Excerpt – All Our Tomorrows by Catherine Bybee

  Synopsis When Chase Stone’s estranged father dies, leaving his multibillion-dollar business to his children, no one is more surprised than he. Growing up outside of the high-stakes world filled with human vultures, Chase and his sister, Alex, are less than enthusiastic about stepping into their father’s shoes. That is until they learn of a […]

Review & #Giveaway – This Time Around by Kimberly Packard

  THIS TIME AROUND by Kimberly Packard   Time Travel Romance / Contemporary Women’s Fiction / Romantic Comedy Publisher: Abalos Publishing Date of Publication: June 11, 2024 Number of Pages: 286 pages   Scroll down for Giveaway!   Synopsis Most of us would jump at a chance for a do-over of our teenage years…but what […]

Review – Flat Water by Jeremy Broyles

  Synopsis On a road trip to Flat Water, the home he fled years before, Monty Marinnis must confront the complex and painful loss that drove him away and now demands his return: family. Called back to California for his sister’s wedding, Monty’s journey from the Midwest to the California Coast is also a journey […]

Review – Dad Camp by Evan S. Porter

  Synopsis A heartwarming novel about a loving dad who drags his eleven-year-old daughter to “father-daughter week” at a remote summer camp—their last chance to bond before he loses her to teenage girlhood entirely. After his daughter, Avery, was born, John gave it all up—hobbies, friends, a dream job—to be something a super dad. Since […]

Excerpt – Holliday by Matthew Di Paoli

  Synopsis Holliday follows the infamous 1880s gambler, dentist, and gunslinger, Doc Holliday. From the outset, Doc has been diagnosed with tuberculosis and is told to head to drier climates and imbibe to prolong his life. He has also heard of a spring located somewhere along the frontier that could cure him—what he believes to […]

Review – Goyhood by Reuven Fenton

  Synopsis Thirty years after leaving Georgia, Mayer Belkin, a Talmud scholar married into a prestigious Brooklyn rabbinical family, faces a shocking revelation after his mother’s death: he and his twin brother aren’t actually Jewish. Traumatized, Mayer decides to convert, facing a week-long wait for the earliest appointment. In the interim, the twins embark on […]